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Let’s go Canada!

Not sure I really understood what being Canadian was until today.

For more than three decades, I’ve been incredibly proud of my home country; it’s humanitarianism, it’s politics, and it’s landscape have all been something that have shaped my entire worldview. But I’ve never been blindly patriotic.

I’ve never before been inspired to wear red and white to a sporting event. I’ve never spontaneously sung the national anthem in a bar. And I’ve never rung a cowbell in victory until now. Most relevantly, I’ve never really been a hockey fan.

Living in Seattle (an American city without an NHL team) and watching Canada play the United States in a game invited by Canadians, on Canadian soil was, as a result, the most surreal, and patriotic moment of my life.